Soul Path Parenting

Anger, it can one of our most volatile feelings. Like a fire breathing dragon, it can feel out of control, consume us, and scorch those around us. So how can we process anger in a healthy manner while being authentic with our feelings? 

In this installment of the Feeling Our Way to Wholeness Series, Amy and Lauren share their thoughts on anger and passion!

In this episode we talk about:

• What the somatic, bodily experience of anger feels like.
• How anger shows up in our lives and relationships and ways to recognize our anger triggers.
• How anger relates to discipling children and what Amy and Lauren's  personal journeys with discipline have looked like.
• How can we can hold space for our children’s anger so that we encourage and honor their authentic feelings.
• The difference between passion and anger.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Feeling Our Way to Wholeness Series and check out our Feelings Blueprint: Self-Assesment Tool on our website to help you contextualize your relationship with your feelings and join us on this journey towards wholeness! 

We also invite you to email us if you have questions about something that we talked about or would like to share your journey with us. We'd love to hear from you at amy@soulpathparenting or lauren@soulpathparenting! 

In our second installment in the Feeling Our Way to Wholeness Series, Amy and Lauren tackle joy and sadness! While we might assume that joy and sadness are perpetually at odds with one another, these interconnected feelings are more like two sides of the same coin, essential and inseparable from one another. So how do we reconcile these differing energies and move past some of the misconceptions and harmful hierarchies around joy and sadness? 

Join us as Amy and Lauren share their insight into the relationship between joy and sadness and the ways we can continue to welcome and feel all the feels on this journey towards wholeness!

In this episode, Amy and Lauren discuss:

• The color based visual mood meter created by Boston College professor James Russell and how we can use it to assess our feelings. 
• The relationship between joy and sadness, how these feelings can manifest in the body, and ways we can honor them.
• Amy and Lauren’s personal blueprints and patterns around joy and sadness.
• The freeing and empowering nature of feeling authentically and how we can practice conscious awareness.
• The prevalence of limiting beliefs around joy, how they affect us, how we can recognize them, and what we can do to move past them.

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Be sure to check out the rest of the Feeling Our Way to Wholeness Series and check out our Feelings Blueprint: Self-Assesment Tool to help you contextualize your relationship with your feelings and join us on this journey towards wholeness!

In this episode we’re kicking off another new series that’s all about feelings! Sometimes our feelings can be overwhelming and confuse us, making it difficult to express what we’re really going through. So how do we become welcoming towards whatever it is we are actually feeling in the moment? How do we face it, acknowledge it, engage with it, feel it, and allow it to be what it is, and then consciously and intentionally move from there? 

This series centers around becoming empowered and making choices about how we authentically interact with our feelings, the relationship we have internally with them, and how we express them externally. We’ll be covering anger, passion, fear, excitement, anxiety, joy, sadness, and acceptance. So tune in as we feel all the feels together!

In this episode, we talk about:

• What the new series is going to look like and how we got here.
• The importance of showing up authentically so that your external self-expression can match your internal reality.
• Amy and Lauren’s own feelings about feelings!

Be sure to check out our Feelings Blueprint: Self-Assessment Tool if you’d like to join us in this journey of self discovery and unpack your personal blueprint around feeling!

Yes and no aren’t always the polar opposites we make them out to be. There can be hell yeses and hell noes, maybes, I don’t knows, and everything else in between. So how do we make decisions and speak our minds when the answer isn’t always simple? In this episode, Amy and Lauren discuss the yes-no spectrum, how we can give authentic answers and teach our children to do the same. 

In this conversation, we explore:

• The yes-no polarity misconception and how we can instead see yes and no as a spectrum, where one isn’t better than the other. 
• Amy and Lauren’s personal journeys with yes and no.
• Tools to help us answer authentically and ways to support our children as they do the same. 
• How giving authentic answers can help create and maintain healthy boundaries so that we can live our best lives.

In this episode Lauren talks with parent coach, wilderness therapist, and author Krissy Pozatek, about how to navigate the polarities of parenting, including control/neglect, enmeshment/abandonment, and rigidity/chaos; using Brave Parenting tools that help us model and foster resilience. 

Some key tools include:

• Increasing our own tolerance for discomfort so that we can model and teach facing issues and growing from them rather than fixing or avoiding.
• Allowing our children opportunities to solve their own problems, while remaining present and willing to help when asked, which is different from stepping in and solving or fixing for our kids.
• Becoming more conscious of our own fears and triggers, of the times in which we are most tempted to “lay leather,” meaning to fix or solve for our kids rather than support them in “building moccasins,” meaning listening and giving help when asked while witnessing our children explore and experiment with their own solutions to their problems. 
• Prioritizing ourselves and our own life’s journey and being a loving and present guide for our children as they travel their own parallel path, which is different than trying to walk their path for them or unconsciously ask them to join us on our preferred path.
• Remembering to have lots of compassion for ourselves and our children as we learn and grow alongside each other. 

For more on Krissy Pozatek and her other works, check out her website: https://www.parallel-process.com/

As a child, I remember often being told, "Jesus died on the cross for your sins."  He did?  More than anything, this was profoundly confusing.  (I remember thinking, "but he didn't even know me...."). 

In previous episodes (ep. 28 & 44), we have come to know Jesus as a wisdom teacher.  We have come to understand his message of oneness.  So how do we make sense of his teachings and the messages of sin & judgment? 
 
Patricia Pearce -- spiritual teacher and author of Beyond Jesus -- is back on the show to share her beautiful wisdom.  With her unique perspective from having been a Presbyterian pastor for 17 years and experiencing her own awakening,  she illuminates the stories we have been told, where they come from, and provides an inspiring new interpretation of the cross and the resurrection.  

If you'd like a copy of Beyond Jesus, Patricia has generously offered our listeners a 25% discount off the cover price.  Order here.  Use the promo code SOULPATH.  💕

We love transformation!  Especially, the "messy middle" of transformation, as Lauren likes to say.  Not just the beautiful before & after pictures....  What happened in between?!  That's what we're sharing with you in this episode.  

Jen Klein, Conscious Parenting Coach and Co-Founder of InnerGuidance Canada, is back!  In this episode, she shares with us the powerful transformational process of InnerGuidance.  It turns out, everything you need to know is already within you.  In this conversation, we explore:

• What InnerGuidance makes possible
• The 4 principles of InnerGuidance for reconditioning your inner world in order to create an aligned outer world, signified by: Hi, No, Yes, Why
• The 3 parts of InnerGuidance: Self-Reflection, the Guided Journey, and the Somatic Experience 
• Lauren and Amy's experiences of their own Guided Journeys with Jen
• The profound -- and, at first, perhaps counterintuitive -- experience that knowing and negotiating with parts of ourselves can bring us closer to wholeness

If you are interested in hearing a full InnerGuidance Guided Journey (Jen guiding Amy), you can find the recording on our website here.

If you wish to explore Jen's work and InnerGuidance further, you can do so at these links:
Jen Klein
InnerGuidance International

And, finally, we'll share this...
We at Soul Path Parenting are not affiliates or in any way financially connected to InnerGuidance.  We share this because we have seen for ourselves the powerful difference it can make for people in their journey toward wholeness.  Jen generously offered both Amy and Lauren free InnerGuidance Guided Journeys, which we accepted!  We have shared our experiences within this conversation.  We hope you enjoy it and see new possibilities for the power of knowing parts of yourselves. 

Learning doesn't just happen at school.  It starts at home!  In this episode, we talk with Rahima Baldwin-Dancy, who is a Waldorf early childhood educator, mother of 4, and author of You Are Your Child's First Teacher, about how we can cultivate learning in the home environment.  In our conversation, we explore:

• Why we need to preserve childhood and resist the cultural forces pushing children to grow up faster
• How children learn through rhythm, repetition, and movement
• The power of connection and play
• The importance of cultivating a space for children to dream and see the world as magical and full of wonder

If you're interested in exploring this conversation about education further, check out our Reimagining Education Series and listen to Episode 49: Reimagining Education: Unschooling and Episode 16: Powerful Possibilities in Transforming Education and Empowering Our Kids, with Dr. William Spady.

For more on Rahima Baldwin-Dancy, check out her website:
http://www.informedfamilylife.org

We are kicking off a new series...Reimagining Education!  As we look around at the current system, it's clear some things aren't working.  But what are the solutions?  What are new ways of thinking about education?  What's possible if we open our minds and our hearts to what education could be?

In this first episode in this series, Amy talks with co-host Lauren and her daughter Ginny about unschooling, the approach to education they've chosen.   What is unschooling?  How does it work?  How is it different from homeschooling?  What's possible when we "un"school?

If you're interested in exploring this conversation about education further, head on back to our first episode on this topic --  Episode 16: Powerful Possibilities in Transforming Education and Empowering Our Kids, with Dr. William Spady.  He asks the question: What kind of human beings do we want to send out the door?   His answer will inspire you.

Enjoy!

In this episode, we talk with Tom Shroder, an award winning journalist and author of Old Souls.  Tom became interested in reincarnation in the late '80s after interviewing Brian Weiss (Many Lives, Many Masters).  He was intrigued, but skeptical.  These tales of past lives from hypnotic regressions lacked the kind of concrete, specific details that could be verified.  Then...he came across the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson.

Dr. Stevenson spent 37 years traveling the world to investigate and document more than two thousand cases of children who remembered past lives.  Tom traveled along with Dr. Stevenson on his final field trips to Lebanon and India, getting a first-hand view his work and cases of past-life memories that he ultimately finds he cannot discount.  

In this episode, we talk about:

• Some of the most memorable and compelling cases of children with past-life memories Tom encountered
• How this has affected his view on life & mortality 
• Amy & Lauren's unique perspectives on reincarnation and a "believer" and a "mystic"

For more on Tom Shroder and his other works, check out his website:
https://tomshroder.com.